The designs in our Community Garden collection celebrate interdependent relationships in the natural world. Willow Talk features trees that support one another with the help of underground fungal networks. Hummingbird reveals how familiar flowers depend on the endurance of an ornithological marathoner. Coneflower demonstrates the resilience of a small southern blossom that came back from the dead once its habitat was protected. Pawpaw speaks to how North America’s only native tropical fruit has thrived in the understory of its arboreal neighbors. And Panel of Perception explores the yagé vine, poppies and fly agaric mushrooms, plants that open the doors to psychedelic experiences for humans and animals alike.  

Community Garden is inspired by the work of contemporary writers, poets and scientists, including Michael Pollan, Margaret Renkl, Andrew Moore, Mary Oliver and Suzanne Simard. Through the lenses of consciousness, transcendentalism and biology, these leading thinkers have shed light on dynamic connections between plants, animals and humans. To give visual expression to these ideas, we looked to the work of early modernists, including Pedro De Lemos, Charles Burchfield and Edna Boies Hopkins.
 
Naming our first collection Community Garden is also fitting for our company; Mazy Path is the fruit of nurturing teachers, mentors, friends and family: community gardeners all.